Plum beetle - Tetrops praeustus
A small longhorn beetle to 6 mm with yellowish to tan, black tipped bristly elytra and yellowish legs.
Feeds on the twigs and branches of various deciduous trees and bushes.
Best from late spring to autumn.
It usually it takes the larvae 1 year to develop into an adult beetle but in some cases they need two years.
Fairly frequent and widespread in England and Wales.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland. There were a total of 29 VC55 records for this species up to March 2015.
David Nicholls
Wirlybones Wood, Ratby
10 June 2011
David Gould
Leicester garden
25 May 2006
Graham Calow
Bramble Walk, near Cosby
01 June 2014
David Nicholls
Wirlybones Wood, Ratby
10 June 2011
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Species profile
- Common names
- Plum Beetle
- Species group:
- Beetles
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Coleoptera
- Family:
- Cerambycidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 5
- First record:
- 25/05/2006 (Gould, David)
- Last record:
- 17/05/2020 (Timms, Sue)
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Graham Calow
Bramble Walk, near Cosby
01 June 2014
David Gould
Leicester garden
25 May 2006
David Gould
Aylestone Meadows, Spearwort Fields
24 May 2019
David Gould
Aylestone Meadows, Spearwort Fields
24 May 2019
